Anode



A. H. WlCKS. ANODE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. i9, 1920.

1,373,693. Patented Apr. 5,1921.

CO ER sisting of the rod 10 and hook 12 may be UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR H. WICKS, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS.

ANODE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

Application filed February 19, 1920. Serial No. 359,930.

I T 0 all whom it may concern -waste and secure a more effective result.

My invention has for its object the provision of a suitable carrier for.slugs or pellets of the material which is to go into solution. The carrier is of sucha nature that it will not be affected by the solution. The advantages of this arrangement are first that the material composing the slugs is entirely used up and that the support or carriers for the slugs can be used over and over again. The form of the slugs is. also such that a greater surface area is in direct contact with the solution. I will describe my invention more in detail by referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of an anode constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a top view of one of the slugs; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view thereof on line 33 of Fig. 2.

My improved structure comprises the lead rod 10 which is provided at its lower extremity with the head 11. The rod also has provision for the reception of a hook 12 which hook is preferably made of copper. This hook has screw threaded engagement with the rod 10- and it is by means of the hook 12 that the anode is hung from a suitable rod so that it projects into the plating tank. A plurality of slugs 13 made of the material which is to be deposited upon the articles in the plating tank are strung upon the rod 19. The slugs have the shape indicated and thus present a large area which is exposed to the plating solution. The slugs are provided with holes 11 which holes aresomewhat larger than the outer diameter of the rod 10 so that these slugs may be readily mounted in place upon said rod. By

virtue of this arrangement the carrier conused over and over again, after the first supply of slugs has been used up in the solution. By arranging the slugs as shown all of the active material which is to be used for plating may enter the solution and be taken up without causing any waste. The use of a separate carrier which is not acted upon by the solution prevents the waste of anode material where the entire anode is made up of material which is supposed to go into solution. In such cases where the anode is made upentirely of active material the copper hangers 12 likewise represent waste and loss. The advantages of thus arranging the anode will therefore be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Modifications may of course be readily made within the scope of my invention. the preferred material for certain of the parts in the drawings, I desire to have it dis- ,tinctly understood that I do not intend to IVhile I have indicated limit myself in any way thereby to the exact details shown and described, but desire to include as part of my invention all such.

obvious changes of structure and materials as would fall within the scope of the claims.-

Having however thus described one form which my invention may take what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An anode of the character described for use in electrolytic tanks comprising a carrier made of material substantially uninfiuenced by the solution in the tank, and a plurality of slugs consisting of active plating material demountably supported upon said carrier.

2. Ananode of the character described for use in electrolytic tanks comprising a carrier made of material substantially uninfluenced b the solution in the tank, a plurality of s ugs consisting of active material demountably supported upon said carrier, and an attachment hook removably mount- I ed upon said carrier and consisting of mate rial of high electrical conductivity.

3. An anode of the character described for use in electrolytic tanks comprising a carrier made of material substantially uninfluenced by the solution in the tank. and a plurality of disk-like slugs consisting of active plating material demountably supported upon said carrier.

4. An anode of the character described for use in electrolytic tanks comprising a carrier made of material substantially uninfluenced by the solution in the tank, a plurality of disk-like slugs consisting of active material demountably supported upon said carrier, and an attachment hook removably mounted upon said carrier and consisting of material of high electrical conductivity.

5. An anode of the character described for use in electrolytic tanks comprising a carrier made of material substantially uninfluenced by the solution in the tank, and a plurality of disk-like slugs consisting of active material demountably supported upon said carrier, each of said disk-like slugs tapering toward its outer circumference to present a large area of active plating material to the solution.

6. An anode of the character described for use in electrolytic tanks comprising a carrier made of material substantially unin- .fluenced by the solution in the tank, a

plurality of disk-like slugs consisting of active plating material demountably sup ported upon said carrier, and an attachment hook removably mounted upon said carrier and consisting of material of high electrical conductivity, each of said disk-like slugs tapering toward its outer circumference to present a large area of active material to the solution.

7. An anode of the character described for use inelectrolytic tanks comprising a car: rier made of material substantially uninfluenced by the solution in the tank, and a plurality of slugs consisting of material that 'is actively influenced by said solution destantially uninfluenced by the solution in the tanks, and a pluralityof disk-like slugs consisting of active plating material demountably supported upon saitl carrier.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this seventh day of February, A.-D. 1920.

ARTHUR H. WICKS. 

